WASHINGTON — Finding out that 1st Lt. Josh Seefried is gay won’t be a shock to most of his co-workers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. He has already come out to some of them, and dropped not-so-subtle hints for others.
But now that the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" law barring openly gay troops from serving in the military has been repealed, even some close friends who know Seefried’s personal life will be stunned to find out that he has an even bigger secret.
For more than a year, Seefried has been using the pseudonym "J.D. Smith" as an organizer with OutServe, speaking on behalf of the group’s 4,000-plus gay active-duty and veteran members.
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